1.Ira
Weatheral's computer (previously called Minerva) after
its data were transferred to the Dora's memory
banks. "She" was usually called Athena or Teena. Her personality was strongly
influenced by Lapis Lazuli
and Lorelei Lee Long, though she had most of Minerva's memories. She ran
most operations on Tertius,
and intended to become flesh and blood herself after a century or so.

(Time Enough for Love)

2. She acted as secretary to Jubal
Harshaw while he visited the Long
household, transcribing his stories before he dictated them.

Alliance (probably created by invasion and occupation) that attacked and
occupied the United States. It had previously absorbed the Soviet Union. Its
leaders were demonstrably racist, treating conquered peoples with considerable
contempt and ferocity. Overpopulation was the likely motivation for its
aggressions.

A "heretic" who did not accept any part of the Church of the Prophet.
Pariahs were herded into ghettos and persecuted, sometimes stoned to death
with official approval. There are suggestions that "pariahs" are almost always
Jewish.

1. Member of the board of directors of
Smith
Enterprises, who moved that Johann
Sebastian Bach Smith be invited to retire; he got no support from the
other members. Wealthy through his mother-in-law (possibly one of Johann's
daughters), he was fired from the board when his voting stock dropped below 5%
of the total.

Revolutionary organization started by Bernardo de
la Paz, Wyoming
Knott, and Manuel Garcia
O'Kelly. They founded it on the cell system, in which any member knew at
most four other members. The organizers developed a system of Party names,
which not only protected members' real identities but also, through the first
letter of the name, revealed their position in the hierarchy and how recently
they had been recruited.

1.[mentioned in passing]
Spaceship intended for one-way interstellar travel, which was being built on
and near Luna
during all of Don
Harvey's life.

(Between Planets)

2.[mentioned in passing]
Space ship that in the early days of spaceflight came in from orbit out of
control and destroyed a Belgian village.

(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

3.Interplanetary
Patrol ship that was engaged in charting a section of the Asteroid
Belt. When radio contact was lost, the Aes Triplex
was one of four ships assigned to search for her. They found that the hull had
been breached by a tiny asteroid, and all crew members died in the
decompression.

[mentioned in passing] Dancer who starred as Titania in the
Halifax Ballet Theater's performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream that
Richard
Ames attended the night Herr
Nameless approached him about killing someone.

(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)

Pauline Peaks

Name given to mountains south of the valley surveyed by the exploration
team of which Bill Lermer
was a member; they were named after team leader Paul du
Maurier.

Song that Dora offered to
sing for the Gay Deceiver
crew; she'd learned it from Lazarus
Long. (In Time Enough for Love, Lazarus was constantly humming a
song about a "born loser" that he'd learned from "Noisy"
Rhysling; a pawnshop figured prominently.)

(The Number of the Beast)

FNS Pax

Federated
Nations flagship deployed for the invasion of Luna after the
colonies declared independence. [Latin, "peace"]

Involuntary enrollment was used as a means of transporting undesirables to
Lunar colonies.

(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

Peace Dragoons

Federated
Nations troops transported to Luna to enforce
authority. Their job was made difficult by the hatred and ridicule of
colonists (who called them Goons), and by their own anger at learning that the
trip was necessarily one-way because of the long-term effects of low gravity.
Earth-based regiments mutinied after hearing rumors that more troops would be
shipped to Luna.

(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

peace lamp

Ceremonial light that was part of Monist worship
practices. It was lit during dinner, among other times.

Universe that got two votes among the Gay Deceiver
crew for Favorite Fantasy World. The inside-out world the crew visited was
conjectured to be a composite of Hollow-Earth fantasies.

(The Number of the Beast)

Jake Pemberton

Pilot for Trans-Lunar
Transit, who had family problems because of his demanding schedule. After
pulling off a nearly-impossible rescue when his ship was knocked off course,
and making an emergency flight on the Moon, he was offered a permanent job
flying the Luna-to-orbit
route.

[mentioned in passing] Region in northeastern Brazil, the
site of an alleged UFO landing.

(I Will Fear No Evil)

Georges Perreault

Quebecois housemate of Janet and Ian Tormey,
unofficially Ian's co-husband (polygamous marriages being illegal in British
Canada). He was an artist and "Mendel Professor of Teratology" at the
University of Manitoba, an expert in genetic engineering. He accompanied Friday on her
attempt to return to the Chicago
Imperium. He ultimately emigrated to Botany Bay.

[mentioned in passing]Ira Johnson's
preceptor (mentor-instructor) when Ira was still studying medicine; he
considered the idea that sterility was important in practicing medicine to be
a far-fetched French notion.

Company that published Maureen
Johnson's book, The Housewife's Guide to Thrifty Investing.

(To Sail Beyond the Sunset)

Hugo Pinero

1. Inventor of a method of accurately
predicting the exact day of any person's death. After the Science Academy's
attempts to discredit him failed and his service threatened to ruin the
insurance companies, he was murdered by an unknown assailant and his machinery
was destroyed.

("Life-Line")

2. Referred to by Mary
Sperling as "Pinero the Charlatan", but Lazarus Long
insisted he could do just what he claimed; he also said that he tried the
service himself but Pinero refused to give him an answer and refunded his
money.

Engineer in the Lord
Protector's household. He gave Hugh Farnham
a tour of the plant and an elaborately drawn map of the Summer Palace, not
knowing that Hugh wanted the information for an escape attempt.

1. A cat that was able to "walk through
walls". He accompanied Gwen
Novak and Colin
Campbell on the mission to rescue Mike from being
"killed" during the final battle of the Lunar Revolution.

(The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)

2. (The same cat as in The Cat Who
Walks Through Walls) He was with Maureen
Johnson when her time bus was sabotaged and she was arrested in time line
eleven. When he returned to Boondock
without Maureen, Hilda
Burroughs took him to Oz, where he could
talk, so he could tell what had happened to Maureen and where she was.

Probably a successor to the United Nations. After a war between the
Afro-European
Federation and the Estados Unidos de Sud that occurred during the
voyage of the Lewis &
Clark, the constitution was rewritten and the name changed to United
System. Planetary League Auxiliary Speech was the lingua franca on Earth.

[mentioned in passing] Organization that arranged a
firewalking demonstration for the passengers of the Konge Knut.
The representative allowed Alex
Hergensheimer to try, but "took no responsibility" for the results.

The Marlowes'
hypochondriac and self-indulgent neighbor. Willis repeated
in her presence gossip about her. She protested the charges against Gaines
Beecher in the colonists' meeting. She and her husband were killed when
they tried to surrender to Mars Company
forces after the colonists took refuge in Lowell
Academy.

[mentioned in passing] "Title" bestowed upon Lazarus Long
in one of his lives.

(Time Enough for Love)

prostitutes

In many stories, Heinlein portrayed prostitution as an honorable
profession; his prostitutes ranged from hard-working and respectable to highly
admired and honored.

1. The PanAsians
forced women from conquered areas into houses of prostitution. (This is the
only example of prostitution being oppressive and shameful.)

(The Day After Tomorrow)

2. Apparently prostitution is a legal
occupation practiced by both Artificial
Persons (though under indenture) and "natural" humans.

(Friday)

3. Prostitution was legal or at least
tolerated on Mars; "Noisy"
Rhysling worked as a musician in a bordello.

("The Green Hills of Earth")

4. Prostitution was a respectable
profession in Luna, perhaps
partly because the high ration of men to women made the women a valuable
"commodity".

(The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

5. "Courtesan" was a legal and honorable
profession on Secundus and Tertius.
Prostitution was also legal on Mars, although the
government tried to regulate the prices; Lazarus Long
talked about the bordellos there.

"First recorded attempt to reach the nearer stars of the galaxy". The
expedition ship, the Vanguard, was
launched in 2119 CE. The crew mutinied and killed all officers capable of
running the ship; thus it drifted in space for generations afterward. Although
the inhabitants retained enough skill through the generations to keep the ship
habitable, they lacked any real understanding of science and all knowledge of
their origin and history.

Subtitled "The Housewife Investor", a column ghost-written by Maureen
Johnson for country newspapers. She defined financial terminology,
discussed news issues that might affect investments, and made recommendations
for investing based on Lazarus
Long's information. The column quickly spread to city dailies. Her
ultimate purpose was to establish a reputation for economic savvy, leading up
to promoting the idea of a moonship in the column.

Cabal group
that released overtly respectful articles, etc., designed to create doubts
about the Prophet. After
the successful coup, it debated "counter-brainwashing" citizens to remove them
from the Prophet's influence.

Peasant who returned to the Doral
the longhorses that Star, Rufo, and Oscar Gordon
had borrowed. Seeing his awe of the group, Oscar "knighted" him, bestowing on
him the name Lerdki 't Pug Easy. Privately, however, Oscar called him "Manure
Foot".

Amoeba-like extraterrestrial parasites that invaded Earth to use humans as
their hosts, completely controlling mind and body. After the Earth
infestations were destroyed by infecting infested regions with nine-day
fever, they were traced to Titan, and an
expedition sent to wipe them out.

(The Puppet Masters)

purple itch

Mythical disease that Podkayne
Fries predicted her brother Clark would die from for avoiding the
inoculations required on Venus.

(Podkayne of Mars)

pusher

Foreman for Venus contract
laborers. Pushers usually exercised tyrannical power over the laborers.

The Heinlein
Society was founded by Virginia Heinlein on behalf of her husband, science
fiction author Robert Anson Heinlein, to "pay forward" the legacy of Robert A. Heinlein to future generations of "Heinlein's Children."